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Before you Start

First Things First

To contribute to UserBase you must register an account. See what advantages this brings you on the Quick Start page. There you will also find help to register and log in.

Be aware that your contribution will be governed by the twin licenses for which icon-links are provided in the side-bar of each page. Click on the images in the Navigation Panel to read the details. You are agreeing to your contribution being publicly available and that others can use that information on their own sites.

Use the Talk page to communicate with other contributors or get help. Normally someone will get back to you within a day.

Relevance

It should relate to KDE software, directly or indirectly. We define it like this:

Working with Languages

Translate a page. You need to be fluent in a language, but not a professional translator to translate a wiki page. Translating manuals is the skill of a special team. That page also points you to instructions for translating sidebar links.

Make application name formatting consistent (avoid using Amaroks, do use Amarok's).

Ensure that all images are in PNG format (you can use JPEG as well, but in this case you should convert your images to PNG later). Save work by converting them before you start 16px.

Remove all non-printable characters from image names.

Hints and Tips

Some Preferences that will help -

If you don't have [edit] links against the sections, open your My Preferences (in the Personal Tools section of the sidebar) then look for Editing and in the Advanced Options set Enable section editing via [edit] links

While you are in those settings, enable Show preview on first edit - while you are editing you can glance at the original display for reference

The default display is to show the preview first, with the edit box below. If you prefer the edit box at the top you can change that setting in the same place